Alaskan_Son

Sorry Perry, I think you're wrong and that you're giving bad advice this time. You're claiming something is fixed when its not and therefore the underlying issue will never get addressed. The last thing I want is bugs hanging around because a user is told that the problem is in the settings when its not. Granted his settings may not be right, but they're not the cause of this particular issue. Not sure you actually read my earlier response or not, but all you essentially have to do is open and close the attic wall dbx and the problem goes away as well. Also note what happens with auto roofs and what happens with attic walls when you delete the roof. Regardless of how it can be fixed, I believe there is definitely something wrong with that plan and it should be sent in to tech support.

Do you look at the pic I posted? That was an auto roof in your supposedly fixed plan. I'm usually the guy claiming its user error and that there's no problem when done properly but I'm pretty certain you are mistaken and that this plan is buggy.

All design flaws and general construction critiques aside, it only takes a matter of seconds to seemingly "fix" the issue at hand but the plan is still broken. Even in your fixed plan look what happens when you build a wood structure off to the side and automatically build the roof... Please send your plan in to tech support Mark.

No offense, but as a builder and designer I would strongly recommend you reconsider that roof design entirely.

I thought you were in pretty good hands here so I wasn't chiming in, but curiosity got the better of me after I read Larry's response so I decided to take a look at your plan. I actually spent quite a bit of time with it and I can't seem to figure out why its misbehaving either. Its very strange and I think you should report it to tech support. I can tell you this...All I have to do to fix the attic walls is open them (easiest to just go to attic floor and group select in plan view), click okay, and then click yes at the prompt and all is well. One other interesting side note that might help tech support figure out what's going on. If you delete the roof, there are still some very persisitent attic walls that stick around for some reason. They're nearly impossible to delete. Seems very buggy to me.

How could it get any quicker? Its just a window with the proper settings.

This thread is probably worth a look... https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/9560-creating-an-angled-window/page-2?hl=+angled%20+window This is one area where Chief could definitely use some work. Its all doable but this particular task is a bit of a pain no matter how you look at it.

Edit>Default Settings>Dimension>Temporary Dimensions... Select "Locate Wall Surface" and "Locate Both Wall Sides"

I use Snagit. And I actually didn't realize we were talking about resizing text until your second to last post I thought we were just talking about resizing the schedule box side to side. Anyway, having said that, you are correct. The schedule can be blocked, resized, and exploded. It just needs to be done with the corner edit handle (I missed that part the first time). It also works using the dbx so long as the size factors are equal. Thanks for the pointers Jere and Chop.

Oh no, can't get text to resize like that. Chief doesn't work that way. Even using the block and resize technique it isn't working. Notice that the schedule is no longer live and that you can't explode the block to get it live again without returning to its original size (Size factors of 1.00 and 1.00).

Chief has had problems with displaying horizon lines like that for a long time. Report it to tech support, the more of us that report it as a problem, the more likely it is to get fixed.

There must be. Not sure what it is though. I hadn't really played with it much...just in passing, but I tested again and realized I don't even have to hold down the control key to get no jumping using the 2 outside handles. Strange.

That's strange. Works just fine for me. Note that I said it only works when "using one of the 2 outside handles" .

Check out the videos Chopsaw mentioned for some ideas, but in brief you can... -Customize toolbars -Customize toolbar configurations -Customize hotkeys All 3 have their own unique benefits.

At least 2 ways you can do this... 1. Block the item, open it, and on the General tab check "Treat As One Object" and under "Include In Schedule" check "Cabinet". Make sure your cabinet schedule is set to include Other under the heading "Objects To Include". 2. Place the object into a blank plan, Export 3D model. Then Import 3D Symbol and select Cabinet from the list of categories.

As Eric said right mouse button OR Alt key.

You might want those lines if you were particular about how you wanted certain walls constructed. In the wall's Structure tab is a heading titled Wall Intersections. That setting decides how your walls will be constructed. For example, the 2 rooms in the attached image are identical. One is displaying framing and one is not so you can see what is happening with the wall intersections. The wall at the top is set to "Through Wall At Start" and "Through Wall At End".

I understand. If you weren't already using that macro I would have had a solution for you is all.

BTW, if you Label and Title your pages well enough so that you know which is which, you can make pretty quick work of reordering the pages with your project browser open. You can see the whole list of pages in the project browser. All you have to do is double click on the appropriate page to get you to the page and then use the Exchange tools to move the page around.

I could be wrong, but the only way to do this that I know of is to use the Exchange With Previous Page and Exchange With Next Page tools. It would be nice if we could see the entire layout all at once and drag pages around like we can with some PDF editors but alas...not something we can do in Chief right now.

Pretty sure that's exactly what the tool was made for.

Well said

I probably wouldn't even mess with the 3D. I would just put the thing on its own layer and simply turn that layer off in 3D.

Click on the Line Style tab and under Drawing Group, select Back Group.

Can you clarify a bit. What exactly failed?